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SOUTHERN WOMEN FARMERS.
Mrs. Field, of New Orleans, in a re
cent lecture, says the New York Sun,
spoke of Louisiana as waiting to be
cut up into small holdings by young
Corydons and Phyllises, who will grow
cotton for the central factories, have
market gardens, orchards, dairy farms
and poultry yards, and who will also
grow flowers and make honey.
She had seen a kitchen garden
whose products equaled any shown at
the Chicago fair, and yet they were
raised by two young girls. Near by,
in the same parish of Cameron, a
young Irish girl squatter, with her 16
--year-old brother, took up a government
claim of 160 acres and went to plant
ing rice, the first crop of which paid
her $1,200. She lives in a three-room
cottage and has a few fruit trees,
plenty of fences and a sea of waving
rice blades. Her nearest neighbor is
another girl farmer, who also settled a
government claim and is bossing an
orchard that is already giving her a
comfortable living. A woman who is
dressmaking in Chicago, bought 20
acres of Louisiana land out of her
savings and sent her mother and
brother down there to start a poultry
farm. They have been so successful
that she is about to join them and add
fruits and vegetables to the crops on
her land, being assured of becoming
independent thereby.
All along the Illinois Central in the
river bottom land of Mississippi and
Louisiana "are fruit and vegetable
farms managed by women —most of
them newcomers." They manage the
farms and pack t4ie berries and veget
ables for the Chicago market. On an
old plantation near New Orleans is an
old woman who grows camelias and
has been to Europe twice on the profits.
In Grant parish, in the Red river
country, there is an 18-year-old girl
who runs her father's cotton gin and
gins 1,800 bales a year. "She handles
that snorting machine as if it were a
baby; oils it, feeds it, fools over it,
scolds it, tidies it up, and when it is
working as good as gold she sits be
side it —dear, dainty, and only 18 —
crocheting lace for her petticoats."
Katherine L. Minor, of the board of
lady managers of the Columbian expo
sition, is a Louisiana planter, and, ac
cording-to this lecturess, in every par
ish are women farmers, stock raisers
and planters. Mrs. Field herself wears
a medal that was the gift of the women
of twenty different trades and profes
sions followed by the working women
of New Orleans. "Women are a power
in the south," she says—though that
is not a new idea—"of fearful force
when they organize. I claim it was the
women of Louisiana who killed the
Louisiana state lottery. When the
Women's anti-lottery was formed, the
THE RANCH.
lottery leaders practically admitted
they had got their Waterloo." As for
the question whether women are safe
in the south, she answers boldly that
"every man is her guard of honor."
Accompanied only by a 15-year-old lad,
she says she traveled 1,800 miles in a
private vehicle in Louisiana safe and
unharmed. She says that every man's
hat is off to the working- woman, and
she holds securely whatever position
her virutes, brains and blood demand.
DITCHLBTS.
L. C. Dillman, of Spokane, proposes
to make a big stroke toward develop
ing Central Washington, and at the
same time offer work to all the unem
ployed laborers in the state. The
scheme is to dig three big irrigating
ditches and pay the employes their
board, clothing and other expenses,
and the balance of their wages in in
terest-bearing bonds secured by lands
along the ditches. Mr. Dillman and
his associates have an option on 90,00)
acres of railroad land, and propose
that the chambers of commerce of Se
attle, Tacoma and Spokane shall each
appoint one person to join his board of
directors to manage the affair. The
company, if organized, is to contract
for the purchase of these 90,000 acres,
and at once sell enough on long in-
REMARKING
ABOUT
SUNNYSIDE
For the information of cur many
inquirers about ten and twenty-acre
fruit, hop and alfalfa farms near
Sunnyside, would say that we have
had a very lively request during the
past week, both for Sunnyside busi
ness and acre lots, and for the larger
farms surrounding the town, and
we have had a goodly number of
eastern settlers during the week.
Some special bargains which we
desire to lay before intending home
seekers are:
Three choice acre lots in the town of Hun
nyside, beautifully .smooth and ready for
immediate irrigation, and in the most rapid
ly building section of the town. We also
have thirty acres of excellent fruit and hop
land one mile from Munnyslde. This land is
in the midst of the most rapidly growing
part of the country surrounding the town,
where over twenty-five farm houses have
been erected within the last six weeks. The
terms are only one-fifth down and balance in
five years time.
If you are seeking a home in a
prosperous, rapidly-growing coun
try, we think it is worth your while
to make a trip to Sunnyside and
Ghat With McGinnis.
statlments, with a small cash pay
ment, to lay in sufficient tools and pro
visions to set the men at work. One
ditch will extend from Priest Rapids
toward Prosser Falls, on the west side
of the Columbia river, and water 30,
--000 acres; the second extends from
Wallula to Ainsworth, embracing 15,
--000 acres, and the third leaves Snake
river near Riparia and traverses the
Eureka flat through 45,000 acres.
A 10,000-acre irrigation ditch propo
sition is now being talked of for the
country near Pasco, the water to be
taken from the Snake with big pumps.
The success of the pump works at
Prosser is highly encouraging to all
schemes of this kind.
The Moxee artesian wells promise
abundant success for irrigation work;
the supply of water seems endless.
There are five wells now flowing, two
more are being dug, and another half
dozen are contemplated in the near fu
ture.
The Horse in His Stall.
There are some horses that -have
never been seen to lie down in their
stall, said a Minnesota stockman.
Some horses that continue to work
for years always sleep standing-, but
their rest is not complete, and their
joints and sinews stiffen. Young
horses from the country are liable to
refuse to lie down when first placed in
a stable in town, and the habit may
become confirmed unless special pains
are taken to prevent it. Sick horses
are very apt to refuse to lie down.
They seem to have an instinctive fear
that if they lie down they will never
be able to get on their feet ag-ain. I
once rode a horse seventy miles in a
single day. I put the animal in as
comfortable a stable as could be made,
but he stood up all night, going- to
sleep with his breast against the stall.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
FOWL PICK-UPS.
Clean drinking" water kept before
the chicks at all times, and changed,
will be worth more than medicine to
fowls.
Nothing: is better for young chicks
than charcoal. It will keep them
healthy.
This is the best month of the year to
get out young chicks. The eerly birds
will win the premiums at the fairs.
Brooder chicks will grow twice as
fast as those that run with hens, if
they get proper attention.
If the lice get a g-ood start this month
you will be fighting them all the year.
But if you will apply the whitewash
brush thorougly, and oil the roost, you
can prevent their coming.